Russian Cyber-criminal Roman Valerevich Seleznev has been convicted by a federal jury after an eight-day trial in Seattle on 38 of 40 counts of hacking, according to the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). The 32-year-old from Vladivostok, Russia—also known by his hacker handle Track2—created a hacking scheme that used malicious software to steal credit card numbers from point-of-sale computers and sell them to the criminal underworld. Seleznev, the son of a Russian MP, was arrested while vacationing in the Maldives in July 2014 by U.S. Secret Service agents. According to the DOJ, his laptop had more than 1.7 million
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